Your path to business agility
The PMO is under constant pressure. From maintaining standards for project management practices to planning and delivering projects – the PMO needs to be in constant sync with strategy and business outcomes. This PMO blog category provides numerous recommendations from experts to encourage top down and bottom up planning, improve processes, promote stakeholder satisfaction, and ultimately eliminate silos to advance the PMO function. Get expert advice on the pros and cons of adopting a continuous planning model. Experts will also share real-world advice on choosing your next Project Portfolio Management tool and how to #BeThatPMO your business needs.
In order to optimize the allocation of an organization’s budgets and resources, IT decision makers should embrace application portfolio management (APM). IT executives often realize the benefits of having a well-established project and resource management processes while proper application portfolio management ends up not getting sufficient attention. However, having access to a full application inventory...
In my last post, I commented on Gartner’s points about the evolving role of the EPMO. Now, I’ll talk about another of their key points — that communication is key to PMO success, and that when communicating to executives, “it’s more important to be interesting than complete.”
The use of dashboards has been spreading throughout organizations. From tracking manufacturing performance to the latest sales numbers, dashboards aim to provide a quick, comprehensive snapshot of how well an organization, business unit, or project is performing. As R&D Portfolio Management processes mature within organizations, they evolve from once-a-year budgeting activities to evergreen processes that...
In an era of increasing IT complexity, it’s hard to imagine new PPM solutions running in a standalone mode. In today’s agile business environment, project managers should have access to the most current data about resources and finances in order to successfully manage existing projects and keep generating revenue. Properly allocating labor, tracking time, and...
For those of you with passion for the world of technology, today is without question a very sad day. Whether you are an Apple disciple (like myself), or someone with just a passion for technology, we all lost an inspirational figure in our industry and a remarkable human being. Of course the power of Steve...
Recently, Gartner took a new look at the whole notion of PPM, from an enterprise and IT perspective. For those of you that have seen my previous post, you know that we applaud this change. The landscape outlined in the new Gartner PPM Market Universe is dead on with where portfolio management is headed. A major...
It would seem that in the age of fast-paced technological improvements and facilitated decision-making, projects within IT should become more manageable and carry less risk. After all, today CIOs and project managers have numerous tools at their finger tipsto make project management more efficient and productive.However, many teams still struggle with proper resource management, budget...
At the opening session for Gartner’s PPM and IT Governance Summit in San Diego in June, the topic was “What’s HOT and What’s NOT in PPM and IT Governance.” Speakers Audrey Apfel, Donna Fitzgerald, and Tina Nunno focused on different aspects of delivering value in turbulent times, including the evolving role of the EPMO. Pretty...
Embracing the benefits of the Cloud for IT organizations, many companies have decided to transition from old-fashioned on-premise solutions to innovative cloud-based applications. The difference has been quite dramatic as many of those who switched have managed to achieve greater efficiency, gain more visibility as well as decrease the overall total cost of ownership. However,...
ZDNet recently ran a piece entitled, “5 Reasons the CIO Can Be a Corporate Sustainability Hero.” Interesting and true, but I felt like they buried the lead as journalists like to say. Sustainability is crucial to this story, but far more powerful when considered in conjunction with the CIO’s impact on his or her company’s...
